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1Sahil Badruddin = ""As I
observe the world, I am struck by the insufficiency of well-informed debate, of
richer dialogue, of deeper education in our quest to avoid human conflict. That
insufficiency often plagues relations between the North and the South and
increasingly between the North and the Islamic world. Some have called this a
clash of civilisations. I think it is, essentially, a clash of ignorances. What
it means, in any case, is that institutions such as the North-South Centre have
never been more important….It is ironic that a sense of intensified conflict comes at a
time of unprecedented breakthroughs in communication technology. At the very
time that we talk more and more about global convergence, we also seem to
experience more and more social divergence. The lesson it seems to me is that
technologies alone will not save us — the critical variable will always be and
will always lie in the disposition of human hearts and minds."-Aga Khan IV"